Violent color

One of the things sometimes forgotten when remarking on how big an alpha bitch Courtney Love was/is, is that she was damn good. This is "Violet" off of 1994's Live Through This, an album which is well worth having because she was smoking when she wrote that album. Or maybe Kurt Cobain wrote it like his fanboys say, but if so, Kurt musta come back from the beyond for her next album, Celebrity Skin, which was similarly brilliant (she claimed it wasn't her "Widow Album", but as usual for Courtney, she was lying).

-- Badtux the Music Penguin

Violent bruise

In 1987 Kat Bjelland founded a band called Babes in Toyland. Her sometime-friend Courtney Love jetted in from Los Angeles and attempted to be the bass player, but Courtney had a couple of problems: a) She didn't really know how to play bass, and b) she had no intention of practicing enough to be good at playing bass. As Kat put it, "I wanted to play music in a garage band, and Courtney wanted to become famous." The two goals weren't compatible, and after a time stripping in Alaska, Courtney went on find the desire to learn an instrument that had previously eluded her, learned how to play the guitar, founded the band Hole in 1989, married Kurt Cobain in 1992, and achieved her goal of becoming famous, albeit hated. But hey, being hated is being famous too, right? And in the meantime Kat, who had taught Courtney most of what she knew about performing grungy punk... well. She's still around, but never did get famous outside of indie circles.

This is "Bruise Violet", off of Babes in Toyland's 1992 album Fontanelle. Just some early 90's grrrl-punk, yo.

- Badtux the Music Penguin